Electronic Arts may have received plenty of backlash coming out of the rectum of 2017 and into the mouth of 2018, but that didn’t seem to affect the company too much in the U.K., where they dominated the sales charts from top to bottom with a number of titles making the top 20 according to the Chart Track data provided by UKIE.

The top 20 games that sold across the U.K., for the week ending on January 6th, 2018 are as follows:

FIFA 18

Call of Duty: WWII

Grand Theft Auto V

Assassin’s Creed Origins

Star Wars Battlefront II

The Sims 4

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

Super Mario Odyssey

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Forza Motorsport 7

Rocket League: Collector’s Edition

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2

Need For Speed Payback

Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy

Lego Worlds

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

L.A. Noire

Gran Turismo: Sport

WWE 2K18

Out of the 20 top-selling games of the previous week, four of those slots were occupied by Electronic Arts, and two of those slots belong to games within the top five sellers bracket. The number one selling game for the previous week was obviously EA Sports’ FIFA 18, so it doesn’t look like all the negative publicity hurt EA for too much save for during the initial launch period of Star Wars: Battlefront II.

In fact, you’ll notice that the fifth best-selling game of the previous week in the U.K., is Star Wars: Battlefront II. If the game continues to maintain top positions on the chart, then EA might be able to recover from the slow sales start during the launch period and maintain a strong tail-end in the long run, unless more gamers hold the wallet.

Nevertheless, it appears some gamers (at least in the U.K.,) have forgiven EA and are back to supporting them. Hopefully, though, this was just a one-off week and not a trend of things to come. According to Express.co.uk, the overall 2017 PlayStation U.K., downloads list showed promise, with Star Wars: Battlefront 2 securing a spot near the bottom of the field just ahead of Battlefield 4 and Assassin’s Creed: Origins.

FIFA 2018

Call of Duty WWII

Rocket League

GTA V

Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy

Horizon Zero Dawn

ARK: Survival Evolved

FIFA 2017

EA Sports UFC 2

Rainbow Six Siege

Destiny 2

Battlefield 1

Minecraft

Star Wars Battlefront

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Ghost Recon Wildlands

Gran Turismo Sport

Star Wars Battlefront 2

Battlefield 4

Assassin’s Creed Origins

It will be interesting to see what the stats look like for the following week in January when the sales data for the week ending on January 13th are made public.

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